Sex differences in lung imaging and SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses in a COVID-19 golden Syrian hamster model.

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العنوان: Sex differences in lung imaging and SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses in a COVID-19 golden Syrian hamster model.
المؤلفون: Dhakal S, Ruiz-Bedoya CA, Zhou R, Creisher P, Villano J, Littlefield K, Castillo J, Marinho P, Jedlicka A, Ordonez A, Majewska N, Betenbaugh M, Flavahan K, Mueller A, Looney M, Quijada D, Mota F, Beck SE, Brockhurst JK, Braxton A, Castell N, D'Alessio F, Metcalf Pate KA, Karakousis PC, Mankowski JL, Pekosz A, Jain SK, Klein SL
المصدر: BioRxiv : the preprint server for biology [bioRxiv] 2021 Apr 04. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 04.
نوع المنشور: Preprint
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101680187 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet NLM ISO Abbreviation: bioRxiv Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
مستخلص: In the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), more severe outcomes are reported in males compared with females, including hospitalizations and deaths. Animal models can provide an opportunity to mechanistically interrogate causes of sex differences in the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2. Adult male and female golden Syrian hamsters (8-10 weeks of age) were inoculated intranasally with 10 5 TCID 50 of SARS-CoV-2/USA-WA1/2020 and euthanized at several time points during the acute (i.e., virus actively replicating) and recovery (i.e., after the infectious virus has been cleared) phases of infection. There was no mortality, but infected male hamsters experienced greater morbidity, losing a greater percentage of body mass, developing more extensive pneumonia as noted on chest computed tomography, and recovering more slowly than females. Treatment of male hamsters with estradiol did not alter pulmonary damage. Virus titers in respiratory tissues, including nasal turbinates, trachea, and lungs, and pulmonary cytokine concentrations, including IFNb and TNFa, were comparable between the sexes. However, during the recovery phase of infection, females mounted two-fold greater IgM, IgG, and IgA responses against the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein (S-RBD) in both plasma and respiratory tissues. Female hamsters also had significantly greater IgG antibodies against whole inactivated SARS-CoV-2 and mutant S-RBDs, as well as virus neutralizing antibodies in plasma. The development of an animal model to study COVID-19 sex differences will allow for a greater mechanistic understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 associated sex differences seen in the human population.
التعليقات: Update in: mBio. 2021 Jul 13;:e0097421. (PMID: 34253053)
تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20210406 Latest Revision: 20210901
رمز التحديث: 20221213
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: PMC8020969
DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.02.438292
PMID: 33821269
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
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DOI:10.1101/2021.04.02.438292